Happily married mother to an adolescent daughter, Andrea, 51, Melbourne, leads a healthy lifestyle, playing netball, coaching basketball, and dragon boat racing with 20 fellow team paddlers. Her lifestyle nowadays however, is a far cry from 12 years ago, when she was living in Toronto, Canada, with her husband and four year old daughter, when…

Today’s launch of the nation’s first ‘for-benefit’ pharmaceutical company will see 100 per cent of profits injected into local breast cancer patient support and medical research organisations. For Benefit Medicines’ (FBM) – an innovative social enterprise set to challenge the conventional for-profit pharmaceutical model – will distribute ALL profits from the sale of its two…

Doctors are citing the ‘post-antibiotic era’ has arrived and that we’re not adequately prepared. Doctors have identified bacteria that can ‘shrug off’ colistin – the medication most commonly used as a last resort (when all other therapies have failed) for infections and disease in the human body. The threat has recently emerged after colistin was…

Today Team VIVA! is celebrating the Melbourne Cup, at the spectacular seaside setting of Ormeggio’s at the Spit, one of Sydney’s leading Italian restaurants. The race will be broadcast live on the big screen as Team VIVA! indulges in a delicious three course lunch, a glass (or three) of champagne, sweepstakes against a stunning Sydney…